The back of my stove is pretty cluttered these days. Currently in residence is a very large bottle of olive oil, a bottle of red wine vinegar, a bottle of caramel-flavored coffee syrup, two pepper mills, a sea salt grinder, a saltshaker, and a box of peppermint tea.Oh, and we mustn’t forget the hand-painted wooden sign behind all of this that reads … [Read more...]
Feeling Social Sunday
Cinnamon Cider simmering gently on the stove Two-dozen peanut butter cookies (minus the one that Mom just snitched) cooling “not fast enough” on the rack Snowflakes then rain then hail and then more rain falling (The snowflakes were by far the most romantic.) Amazing Grace (the movie) waiting patiently in the DVD player. (The theme is … [Read more...]
Cooking Chicken Tikka Masala on a Saturday Afternoon
When I grow up, I want a gourmet kitchen.When I get it, you can come visit me. We’ll drink a glass of wine while we chop veggies; we’ll listen to music; we’ll eat well.Doesn’t that sound delightful? It was! That is, it is!I speak from recent experience.We spent the evening with some dear friends last night, and talk about a stress buster. (I’m … [Read more...]
Foolish Pride
Even if I get nothing else of merit done this week, (blogging notwithstanding), I will have cleaned my oven.Isn’t it pretty?Seven years living in this house and I have just now discovered the Auto-Clean feature. I should be embarrassed but I’m too proud. … [Read more...]
Mixed Blessings
Yesterday the pediatrician commented on how “smart” 3-year-old Angela is for knowing all her colors.I flushed warm with pride—forgetting momentarily, of course, that Angela’s “smarts” in the color wheel department are more a product of the time she spends playing with her older sisters than any real effort on Mom’s part—and then moved on……to … [Read more...]
To all of my Friends down South
…who are celebrating—finally!—the advent of Fall, with love from Minnesota.“All things bright and beautiful, All creatures, great and small,All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.”(from The Creation by Cecil Frances Alexander)And to my friends in California who are worried about the fires, you are firmly in my prayers.Ad Jesum … [Read more...]
Puppy Math
One of these plus one of these equals lots of these and a couple of these.Ad Jesum per Mariam, … [Read more...]
Who is this Murphy guy? ‘Cause I really hate his law.
If it could go wrong today, it did.(Brace yourself for a big whiny post. Here it comes.) Jem slept on the floor next to the puppy’s kennel and woke up covered in hives. Is it dander or dirt or dust mites? (I don’t really want to know and yet, I do.) After giving Jem a large dose of Alavert and sticking him in the tub (at 10:00 a.m.), Cate … [Read more...]
My Big Fat Weedy Garden
When I am old and retired, I will have the time I need to have a beautiful garden.This is what I tell myself most days.Either that, or I will win the lottery and hire grounds people!So far, though, I am not all that proficient with the little plots of land that are my garden. They are big; they are overgrown; they are weedy. I know there are things … [Read more...]
If not now, then when? (Part II)
If this mom in Minnesota were to jump off a philosophical cliff, would you follow?Because I feel as if that’s where I’m going, first with that last post and now with this one.Hopefully this post will make more sense. I don’t think that Part I was as…cogent as I would have liked.Big sheepish grin. Let me explain.When I think of discipline, I think … [Read more...]
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